Grow Local Colorado | Growing local food,<br />local community<br />and our local economy

Grow Local is a new project developed by community leaders, gardeners, locavores, farmers and businesses to help more people grow more food locally. This website is a resource hub for information, expertise and partnership in establishing your own food garden in your home, business, or public space. (find out more about the project)


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Register your garden - whether an urban farm or container garden, share it with us!
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Featured Garden

Mount Loretto Apartments Terraces

This is a project of the Sustainable Communities/Organic Gardening Meetup Group. Mount Loretto Apartments has five 160 foot long, four foot deep irrigated terraces desending a south facing slop to a water settlement basin. The terraces were originally planted to a wild grass flower mixture. We are using a sheet mulching technique to kill the grass and prepare the soi...

Neighborhood: South Federal

Upcoming Events

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Herbs and Essential Oils for the Immune System

02/09/2010 - 6:30pm
Conscious Eating: How Food Choices Affect Your Health and the Natural World

02/09/2010 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Beekeeping Essentials

02/13/2010 - 9:00am
Basic Chicken Keeping

02/13/2010 - 2:30pm
Basic Chicken Keeping

02/13/2010 - 2:30pm

Latest News about Grow Local Colorado

Grow Local is thrilled to announce our 2nd "Growing our Urban AgriCULTURE" potluck and networking party!

Posted: 01/19/2010 - 2:57pm

Grow Local Colorado has decided to do quarterly potlucks, each one celebrating a season! This potluck will be a Winter celebration and will include seed sharing, so bring seeds to share!
Think Colorado when deciding what to bring to eat and/or drink, and remember, it's a Zero Waste...

Grow Local Videos

Local Food Blog Articles

Get to know your veggies-Swiss Chard from Local Harvest Blog [Mon, 02/08/2010 - 5:54pm]

Swiss Chard is a wonderful plant to grow in the garden. Not only does it taste good, it's pretty as well. At Wild Things there are several different varieties of Swiss Chard in the garden...

Ricky's Lucky Nuts: Peanuts from Heaven from Culinary Colorado Blog [Mon, 02/08/2010 - 4:39pm]

Its easy to go nuts over these delicious dry-roasted peanuts ...

Culinary Students Win Big in Christopher Ranch Garlic Gridiron Challenge from Local Harvest Blog [Mon, 02/08/2010 - 2:50pm]

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Tapping (Way Too Early) Day from Local Harvest Blog [Mon, 02/08/2010 - 12:17pm]

Hindsight is so clear, but three weeks ago it sure looked like we were in for a week-long heat wave. The forecast called for unseasonably warm weather in the upper thirties. Worried that we were...

17 week old Red Star Pullets from Local Harvest Blog [Mon, 02/08/2010 - 11:08am]

I work at Southern States or Washington Farmers Coop in Abingdon, Va. We are holding chick days at our store this year. We are getting 17 week old Red Star Pullets they are about 3 weeks from...